Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-21
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
WHAT Is THE CONDITION OF THE RULER OF
THE GERMAN RNPIREi
Misleading Dispatches Sen! OGt by Attendants
Probability Of War Ahsr Bis Dsath--COmments
on the Tory SureHdsr-Funsral Of
Krupp-General Cable Notes.

LONDON, July 20.-The Vienna press
welcomes Emperor William to Austria in
an unusually warm manner.
The reports concerning the health Of the
aged Emperor of Germany are infinitely
more varied than the fluctuations of ther-
mometer. One day he issill and the next
day he is not. He is in improved health
in the morning, in comatose state at
noon, riding his favorite charger in the
afternoon and attended by half a dozen
physicians after dinner.
All Of the reports agree that the EN-
peror is alive, but the stories OF his taking
long rides on horseback, and protracted
strolls after dinner may be taken in hom9-
pathic doses alternately with the yarn that
the Pope is going to remove the headquar-
tiers of the church To Malta, or the fiction
that Mr.. Gladstone is contemplating a
stumping tour of the United States. As a
matter OF fact the Kaiser is wound up
every morning like an old fashioned clock,
and lest he might possibly run down before
night is given an occasional turn during
the day, so that in the interval between
his rising and retiring his mechanism is
constantly under the observation of his
attendants.
MISLEADING DISPATCHES SENT OUT.
The censorship of the Russian govern
ment over dispatches passing through the
telegraph offices OF Russia is noted the
world over for its severity, but the scrutiny
to which the Cars agents subject tele-
grams becomes the extreme of mildness
and the merest perfunctory duty with the
precautions taken by the personal attend
ants of the Emperor of Germany against
the leaking out of any information indicat-
ing the true condition of the Imperial
nonogenarian. While everything that can
possibly be said as showing the slightest
improvement in his physical state is teie-
graphed tar and wide.
Not only are such dispatches spread
broadcast, but they are also worded 80 rs
to present TO their readers the picture of
hale old man, physically vigorous and
mentally acute, who has been suffering
few days inconvenience from a slight
cold, but is sufficiently convalescent to
perform with perfect ease and even alacrity
the functions of man of forty years Of
age.
Much has been said recently ~ to the
probability of war between Germany and
France Immediately after the Emperor's
death, conveying the impression, as it was
intended should be, that the present peace
ful attitude of Germany is due entirely to
the EmperOr's iirmneSs in guiding the
destnieS of the Fatherland; and these sto-
ries, too, If
TRACED To THEIR ORIGIN,
would be found to have originated in Ber-
lin and very near if not actually within
the Palace. There is remote possibility
that the representations thus made may
have been reared upon foundation of
truth but there are well informed persons,
who believe that for the last twelve
months, If not for much longer period,
the Emperor has had rs little 10 do with
the conduct of German national, political
and diplomatic affairs as the man whose
vigorous rubbing restores to his feeble
body when he awakes each morning, some
thing akin to the sensations he experienced
before his blood ceased 10 circulate with
out stimulation, when all Of his food was
taken through its natural channel and
when he could arise from his bed and walk
about his room without being lifted or
prOpped up.
1t is noteworthy that the Times, Standard,
Daily Neirs and other morning papers con.
tain Berlin dispatches concerning the En-
peror's health and whereabouts, one stating
that he is at Innsbruck ''in improved
health" aud another announcing his ar
rival at Gasticn in the care of three physi-
clans. The latter dispatch significantly
adds that the hotel proprietors were Obliged
TO put their Imperial guest on the first
floor because he wasn't able TO get up
stairs, and intimates that he would fall
down if he tries TO do 40.